Can't shake the devil's hand

Out from the kitchen to the bedroom to the hallway
Your friend apologizes, he could see it my way
He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking
Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding *

I listened to two tragedies tonight. The second was NPR's The Play's The Thing... Oedipus Rex, the Greek tragedy. The first was the Washington Huskies losing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Ah well.

There once lived a man called Oedipus Rex.
You must have heard about his odd complex.
His name appears in Freud's index
Because he loved his mother ... **

( You can't handle the truth... )

* They Might Be Giants (of course)
** Tom Lehrer (of course)